The new government would also be under intense pressure from jailed ex-leader Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, which backed independent candidates comprising the single largest grouping in the National …
PTI leaders claim they would have won even more seats if not for vote rigging. A nationwide election-day mobile telephone blackout and the slow counting of results led to suspicions …
Gohar Khan, the chairman of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-Insaf (PTI) party who also acts as the former premier’s lawyer, called on “all institutions” in Pakistan to respect his party’s mandate. At …
Khan, a former cricket star turned Islamist politician with a significant grass roots following, was disqualified from running in Thursday’s election because of criminal convictions. He contends his sentences and …
Campaign posters for Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan’s former prime minister, along a street ahead of Pakistan’s national election in Lahore, Pakistan, on Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty …
Islamabad — As long lines of pessimistic Pakistani voters waited to cast ballots on Thursday, many had serious doubts about the power of their votes to influence the course of events …
Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s party was slightly ahead in early election results on Friday, after vote counts were hit by unusual delays that the government ascribed to a …
Pakistanis voted Thursday in national parliamentary elections, but people headed to polling stations under tense circumstances a day after deadly bomb blasts targeted politicians and amid allegations of electoral misconduct. …
Four policemen were killed in a bomb blast and firing targeting a police patrol in the Kulachi area of Dera Ismail Khan district in the northwest during the day, local …
The first attack, which killed 14 people, took place at the office of an independent election candidate in Pishin district. Amid a ‘polycrisis’ can Pakistan election bring stability, normalised India …